The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me.

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

George Santayana

There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.

Quentin Crisp

The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.

Thomas Jefferson

Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

Leslie Stephen

The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.

Kahlil Gibran

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.

Kenneth Koch

The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.

G. W. F. Hegel

We may place blame, give reasons, and even have excuses; but in the end, it is an act of cowardice to not follow your dreams.

Steve Maraboli

Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.

Howard Hughes